Thursday, February 26, 2009

The OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability TC has recently approved the following specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review:

Identity Metasystem Interoperability Version 1.0

Introduction:The Identity Metasystem Interoperability specification prescribes a subset of the mechanisms defined in WS-Trust 1.2, WS-Trust 1.3, WS-SecurityPolicy 1.1, WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2, and WS-MetadataExchange to facilitate the integration of Digital Identity into an interoperable token issuance and consumption framework using the Information Card Model. It documents the Web interfaces utilized by browsers and Web applications that utilize the Information Card Model. Finally, it extends WS-Addressing's endpoint reference by providing identity information about the endpoint that can be verified through a variety of security means, such as https or the wealth of WS-Security specifications.

This profile constrains the schema elements/extensions used by the Information Card Model, and behaviors for conforming Relying Parties, Identity Providers, and Identity Selectors.

The public review starts today, 26 February 2009, and ends 27 April 2009. This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. Please feel free to distribute this announcement within your organization and to other appropriate mail lists.

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/imi-comment/. All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that thefeedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members.

I hope that we will have an official OASIS standard for Information Cards soon.Well, musing about "soon". I am wondering how long these things take. I joined Chuck Mortimore and the Openinfocard project in August 2006. We had the first open source Information Card relying party and the first open source IdP, both written in Java and Java Server Pages. Then of course the first open source card selector as an Firefox extension, written in javascript, XUL and Java.Time is flying when you are having fun.

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Java 6 update 12 has been released. Please install this update because it contains a fix (6745455) especially for Firefox extensions that use java like the openinfocard id selector. openinfocard users on MacOS still have to disable the plugin2 and use the dying OJI plugin (or stay with Firefox 2...); although that is not really satisfying... I hope that Apple will leap ahead soon from java 1.6u7 to 1.6u12.